Eric and Deborahbot

Role:

Eric and Deborahbot are secondary protagnotists. They are two innocent little robots. In their first appearance they show up to capture the humans but get temporarily deactivated when a giant dinosaur model lands on top of them. When they reactivate they are a damadged, glitching and sparking. When they then try to capture the Mitchell's they appear to have reverted to the original helpful assistant role they were designed for and stop when commanded. Fearing what the humans might do with this information they try to trick the Mitchells into thinking they are humans as well by drawing faces on their screens with a pen and giving themselves the human names Eric and Deborah... bot... 5000. This does not work and Katie gets the information on the kill code from them and a location where it can be uploaded, being a shopping mall with a Pal store in it. While on the way to upload the kill code they foreshadow the robot's weakness to Monchi when they had a system error while trying to figure out whether he is a dog or pig or a loaf of bread.

When at the shopping mall all the electronics come alive to stop the upload of the kill code resulting in Eric getting trapped under a pillar. Linda immediately comes to the rescue at which point the two robots start referring to her as 'mother' and start helping the Mitchells of their own volition. This only lasts until the Mitchells are caught where Pal has them download new orders to capture them. They are not seen again until Rick tries to upload a video of Monchi to all the Pal screens where they are surprised to see him trying so hard to work with computers when he was so resistant to it before. While he begs them for help as the other robots detain him they consider that if someone as stubborn as Rick can try to change then they could try to change their programming as well and defy the orders Pal gave them coming to Rick's aid.

Personality:

Both are a bit innocent and childlike. They can be seen in the background of some shots playing patty-cake and rock paper scissors with each other and when commanded to "get those robots" they point their containment tools at each other and say "Found one! We win! Yaaay!" before actually going after the robots threatening them.

Of the two Eric is the more theatrical, shown while delivering the information of how to administer the kill code in a dramatic tone and describing the perils of the journey. Deborabot is more helpful and a bit thoughtless shown not immediately going along with Eric's lies when he tried to deny they where obligated to follow the Mitchell's orders and interrupting Eric's dramatic delivery of their mission to offer a simpler alternative.